Since the now infamous Cannes Film Festival screening which resulted in a wave of bad buzz like never seen before, Richard Kelly has been trying to do damage control on his sophomore effort, a follow-up his hit cult first film Donnie Darko. Southland Tales has been re-cut, enhanced with new special effects (which evident in the trailer are not too impressive), and is said to be a totally different movie. And now finally, the movie trailer has hit the web, and it’s everything I hoped the movie might look like. Call me a fanboy, but I want to love this movie. There has been some recent conversation in the comments on this site about the differences between bloggers and critics, and I think that’s one of them. Critics are paid to be critical. Bloggers are paid to be fans. And when things go wrong, they are allowed to be unrelentingly honest about a film, star, director or writer (I’ve even received a few e-mails that I can print from actors, writers, and directors that took issue with some of my comments). But the truth is, most of the bloggers want to see a movie like Resident Evil 3 (sadly, we helped promote the film, but Sony has shut all media out in hopes of keeping the bad buzz from hitting you guys). I know, this is a rant for another time, another post.
I’m really looking forward to Richard Kelly’s new film. I really dig the great Pixies song used in the trailer (Wave of Mutilation), the Moby soundtrack and the play against the famous TS Eliot quote: “This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper.” I’ve even read the prequel graphic novels, which I can highly recommend. I don’t see how this film could make sense if you didn’t read them. And maybe that was the problem with the Cannes screening. Check out the new trailer for yourself after the jump.
You can also watch the trailer in High Definition. Southland Tales hits theaters on November 9th 2007.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Hey Peter,
The quote in the trailer is “This how the World ends, Not with a Whimper, But with a Bang.”
not sure if you meant that or not but heh.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
My god I hope this is good. I LOVED the first half of this trailer. Hope the fim delivers. Its been a long time coming.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
I think The Only way You Can Understand This Movie is if the trailer is 15 Minutes long not 2 minutes and 23 seconds long, and Pete I have never seen Donnie Darko but I think I’m going to rent it this weekend, if it’s interesting like this.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Travis,
It’s worth checking out, it’s one of my favorite movies. It can be confusing to some people, alot of my friend just can’t seem to understand it. If you run into that same problem watch it again and pay closer attention, it can lose you if you space out for a couple minutes.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
My god youve never seen Donnie Darko, thats amazing, its glorious! 28.06.42.12, wearing that shirt right now actually. Im not afraid anymore!
September 20th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
i’m still stoked.
I think Richard Kelly probably needs a good editor.. I really thought the theatrical cut of Donnie Darko was a vastly superior movie to the Directors Cut that was later released, so i imagine this be same sort of situation here.
September 20th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I have high hopes for this movie but I don’t like how the cast is straight out of 1999.
And, how does Richard Kelly make a living? I mean he’s only had one movie. Surely he has a regular job or comes from money or something right? Well, I guess he wrote Domino…
September 20th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Awesome soundtrack. Like the last song. Lets face it folks, if hollywood would just allow for originality like this we’d be in a better place filmmaking wise. I’m tired of the superhero plots. Richard Kelly seems like a good hearted kid. I hope the best for the guy.
September 20th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
“But the truth is, most of the bloggers want to see a movie like Resident Evil 3″.
Are you saying most bloggers like bad movies? Because I certainly think that’s a very inaccurate statement.
September 20th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Nick,
okay, I should have clarified. I meant that most bloggers are interested in genre movies (as opposed to movie critics).
September 21st, 2007 at 12:10 pm
This movie looks friggin awesome!
September 21st, 2007 at 2:23 pm
The trailer looks fantastic, but peter you are right it seems to be tailored only to people who have read the prequel books, unless its all going to be spoon fed to the audience during the film. Also it looks like Kelly has done a LOT of editing since Cannes. If it come close to being as good as DD, this will be one for the ages. PS anyone know the name of the song playing during the second half of the trailer?
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:14 am
Looks outta this world! Can’t wait!
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Dwayne Johnson and J.Timberlake are surprisingly talented actors; but i’m still trying to figure out what Southland Tales was about… maybe it’s really obvious, i.e. life in Los Angeles is blurred, cluttered, flashy and not always meaningful.